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Seventeen days, four thousand miles, twelve states. From Tennessee to Vermont, New Hampshire, and (almost) Canada. Chocolate theme parks, ice cream factories, Civil War sites and untold cheap motels with comfortable beds.

Besides leaf peeping, we managed to ride one of my Top 10s: the Blue Ridge Parkway (#8).

• September 19, 2012: Get Your Motor Running’, Head Out on the Highway
• September 21, 2012: Slaying the Dragon, Riding Like Grandpa
• September 22, 2012: College Football Saturday: Go Chanticleers!
• September 23, 2012: Camp Lejeune, Rachel Carson and Ocracoke Island
• September 24, 2012: Climbing a Lighthouse … in Stiletto Heels?
• September 25, 2012:  “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death”
• September 26, 2012:  Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line
• September 27, 2012: Put Me in Coach, I’m Ready to Play Today!
• September 28, 2012:  In Search of the Elusive Burlington Coat Factory
• September 29, 2012: Checking Out the Vermonter at Ben & Jerry’s
• September 30, 2012:  In New Hampshire, We’ll Live Free — Or Die
• October 1, 2012: Kancamagus and Dixville Notch: To Ride, or to Vote
• October 2, 2012:  Heading for Home: All Good Things Must End
• October 3, 2012:  20,000 Women? “Wilt Hit on Everything That Moved”
• October 4, 2012: It’s a Five-Star Day. It Really Is!
• October 5, 2012: A Special Shout-Out to the Civilian Conservation Corps
• October 6, 2012: The “Happiest City For Women” … But Where?
• October 7, 2012: All Good Things Come to an End — in Farragut, Tennessee